Abstract
This article provides a status update regarding the current support for OpenBSD on the HONOR MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon.
Current OpenBSD Support Summary
The HONOR MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon is a system on a chip based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. It is imperative to note that the utilized firmware should be signed by a vendor for designated devices. Typically, this firmware can be obtained via the Windows Update channel or the HONOR website.
| Component | Works? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3D acceleration | No | No driver, support unlikely |
| Audio | No | No driver |
| Battery status | Yes | Not on each boot |
| Backlight | Yes | |
| Bluetooth | No | |
| Fingerprint sensor | No | Shows up as a ugen device, no driver |
| Keyboard backlight | No | |
| Power management | Yes | |
| SSD | Yes | |
| Touchpad | Yes | Multitouch doesn’t work on each boot |
| Touchscreen | Yes | Touchscreen doesn’t work on each boot |
| USB | Yes | USB-C ports don’t work on each boot for data |
| Webcam | Yes | |
| Wireless | No | Driver in progress |
| ZZZ / Hibernation | No | Inappropriate ioctl for device |
| zzz / Suspend | No | System freezes |
The dmesg from OpenBSD 7.8 (#37: Thu Oct 9 08:32:56 MDT 2025).
Other Systems
It was observed that Fedora 42, Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu Concept (image
plucky-desktop-arm64+x1e-20250827.iso), NetBSD 10.1 and FreeBSD 14.2
were all unable to boot on the machine.
The relevant issue in the Ubuntu Concept project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-concept/+bug/2092406
Thus, created devicetree was sent to Linux Kernel upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/87jzazzx17.wl-kirill@korins.ky/
And, finally, here a project to port Linux to this machine: https://github.com/vamanea/linux-magicbook